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Sister-site or twin-site? Programmingforums.

Could someone tell me what the big difference(s) is between and Daniweb and is so-called sister site programmingforums. The only difference I see is a slightly different layout and a change of colours.

knight fyre
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There's a different set of forums and a different culture.

sarehu
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PFO is strictly for programming while Daniweb is geared more toward general IT.

Narue
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There's a different set of forums and a different culture.


Most of the forums I see there are on Daniweb. How's the culture different there than here in Daniweb's programming sub-forums?PFO is strictly for programming while Daniweb is geared more toward general IT.

True but I could say PFO is the same as Daniweb's programming sub-forum.

knight fyre
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>True but I could say PFO is the same as Daniweb's programming sub-forum.
I'm sure the PFO regulars would be thrilled to know that you dismiss them so readily.

Narue
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PFO consists of more hardcore programmers, and is strictly forums. The interface is also slimmed down.

DaniWeb is more full-featured, in that we have blogs, a code snippet library, various Javascript-enhanced features, etc.

cscgal
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So I guess that means a no in terms of merging?

zandiago
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There have never been plans to merge the two sites.

cscgal
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There have never been plans to merge the two sites.


And may such plans never come to be... :P

Infarction
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I like the site over there,seems very much like our site here :)

Thanx Dani!

The Dude
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I like the site over there,seems very much like our site here :)

Thanx Dani!


Layout wise, yes. In terms of content, no. And I very much like it that way, kthx.

Infarction
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